It’s sort of the opposite.

A low level IC would not be called while on leave to be fired. But when the company needs a change of excecutive leadership, they aren’t going to wait months because you had a baby. I’m sure he’s being paid through the end of his leave period and besides is compensated in the millions.

He's still doing his paternity leave and will be paid through it. Company just needs to get going on hiring someone else in the job.

I absolutely agree. I don't care what the work email is - even if it's "hey you're fired". You're making them work while he's on leave. The guy is tweeting all these bullshit, empty "my incredible journey" tweets for Twitter damage control.

Absolutely toxic workplace.

What's wrong with firing someone on paternity leave? It's not like he was fired because he was on paternity leave.